Tornado injures five, spares submarines at Georgia Navy base
By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 3, 2018
WASHINGTON – An apparent tornado damaged buildings, blew vehicles into the sea and injured five people on Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in southern Georgia on Sunday, base officials said.
The storm spared the Navy’s Atlantic Ocean fleet of Ohio-class submarines based at Kings Bay, said Scott Bassett, a spokesman for the base just north of Georgia’s border with Florida. The base houses five nuclear-armed Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines and two Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, which have been converted to use conventional missiles, according to the Defense Department.
https://www.stripes.com/news/tornado-injures-five-spares-submarines-at-georgia-navy-base-1.559106
